Series planned to cover the whole Bible by 2006 Combines the latest scholarship with straightforward language and a reverent attitude to Scripture Aims to instruct the head and warm the heart Each of these five books has profound pastoral implications. They take us into a world of intense joy and massive grief. Using story, poetry, proverb, dirge and lament, they run the whole gamut of human emotion. Each has its own distinctive style and emphasis and, as part of the canon of Scripture, each of these five books ultimately bear witness in some way to the gospel message.